A member of Doctors Without Borders puts on protective gear

A member of Doctors Without Borders puts on protective gear to treat patients infected by the recent Ebola outbreak in Nigeria (Getty Images)

How likely is it to catch a deadly disease mid-flight, and what might stop a sick passenger carrying it between...
countries? To get a sense of the risks involved, Shalloma's Blog Future talked to infectious disease researchers to find out what we know about transmission during air travel – and what this can tell us about the risk of Ebola spreading across the world.